New South Wales

Parkview Constructions has reached a settlement in an owners corporation’s lawsuit over allegedly combustible cladding at the Australia Towers in Sydney Olympic Park.

The owner of an Engadine site being developed into an apartment complex has been sued by the project's builder, who seeks over $2 million in allegedly unpaid progress payments as well as damages for breach of contract. 

A judge has ruled that the owners corporation of a 20-unit development in Cabramatta is entitled to damages from the developer over defects, after promised rectification works were not carried out by an agreed date.

The owners corporation suing Parkview Construction over alleged combustible cladding at the Australia Towers in Sydney Olympic Park is “hopeful” of a settlement being reached, a court has heard on the eve of trial.

A community group has filed a lawsuit over the government's assessment of Santos' Narrabri lateral pipeline, the latest challenge to the company's $3.6 billion natural gas project in northern NSW.

Norton Rose Fulbright has lured two M&A parters from Squire Patton Boggs to join its Sydney office during a period of high demand. 

Real estate debt asset manager Madigan Capital has closed a $625 million loan to fund the development of a 580,000sqm industrial estate in Western Sydney.

A charitable trust of the late artist Martin Sharp, known for designing album cover art for Eric Clapton, can sell his $33 million home to the neighbouring Cranbrook, despite having expressed "animus" towards the prestigious private school, a judge has said.

A judge has signed off on a confidential settlement in a class action over off-the-plan homes in a proposed north-west Sydney development, including a clause that prevents group members from making any public statements about the suit or disparaging the parties. 

A legal challenge over a Sydney private school's plans to go co-ed has been dismissed, with a judge ruling the word "youth" in the school's 150-year old founding document had a gender neutral meaning.